1 The bells ceased, as they had begun, together.
2 It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits.
3 If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
4 Scrooge promised that he would; and they went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 5 Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamp-light.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 6 All this time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by-and-by they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 7 But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too, and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them than they had been upon the recognition of each other.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 8 As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust which could hardly have been greater, though they had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 9 But nothing doubting that, to whomsoever they applied, they had some latent moral for his own improvement, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 10 Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 11 There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us, and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS